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Old 10-28-2016, 11:55 AM   #234
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I read song lyrics. I have the sound turned off on my computer and often read lyrics before even listening to a song. I said earlier that the best songs have a story in them. They are literature for me. Mark Knopfler has written some great stories that he happens to set to music. Prairie Wedding is a fabulous Western/romance. He also wrote a mafia type song "Don't Crash the Ambulance." He has a crime song in "Postcard from Paraguay." Really great mystery/detective story: "On Every Street." Love the line: Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete. But the whole "song" is a great story.
Yep, this is why I listen to music, for the story, for the poetry, for the emotion.

Not for the music, but that doesn't hurt either.

The Cowboy Junkies, Townes Van Zandt, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Gregory Alan Isakov, David Crosby/CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Counting Crows/Adam Duritz....
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